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Recently, Defense Acquisition University transferred curriculum management of the Earned Value Management (EVM) courses from the Business center to the Acquisition center. This move recognizes the importance of EVM as a critical, multi-disciplinary tool for efficiently executing programs. The change supports facilitating EVM training across the entire university curricula. While EVM training will expand in other career fields, the EVM courses will remain core training for the financial management and cost estimating career fields.
Historically, earned value analysts assigned to the business career fields have been the primary practitioners of EVM in program offices. The effective use of EVM requires the involvement of the entire program office team. The main DAU EVM courses are:
BCF 102, Fundamentals of Earned Value Management;
BCF 203, Intermediate Earned Value Management;
BCF 262, EVMS Validation and Surveillance; and
BCF 263, Principles of Schedule Management.
Beginning in the DAU 2013 course catalog, the short title of these courses will change as follows:
BCF 102 to EVM 101,
BCF 203 to EVM 201,
BCF 262 to EVM 262, and
BCF 263 to EVM 263.
This change coincides with a significant update to course content in EVM 101 and EVM 201. The upgrade of the online EVM 101 content is ongoing, and the EVM 201 content update is in the early planning phase. DAWIA career field core training requirements will remain unchanged – those career fields that currently require core EVM BCF courses will require the renamed EVM course.
For program managers in need of continuous learning points, I highly recommend BCF 263 (EVM 263), Principles of Schedule Management.